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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Just a little mobile post to let you know that I'm still alive! I have been working every waking moment on the Basic Grey design team call. Honestly I'm not that confident that I will even be in contention....but you can't win if you don't try, right? Wish me luck...I will be posting all my projects in the week to come (I made eight things!)

Saturday, August 27, 2011

This is the last SPCC challenge before the end of the DT call. Here is the challenge:

I immediately thought of my favorite Basic Grey line: Origins. I wanted to do a quilt look so I cut up the FRONT of the origins packaging and used the little square samples to make my quilted circle. It worked perfect!

Here she is:

This is also the second card in my personal challenge to use ALL of my stamps. I used “Gratitude is an Action Word” from Inkadinkado’s Thankful for Everything. I also used Heidi Grace “Thank You w/heart”.

Friday, August 26, 2011

I am very excited to be participating in the first challenge over at Young Crafters Unite! I know that the challenge is open to everyone (as it should be) no matter your true age, but I am excited that the name alone might draw some other crafty young adults like me. I do feel a little bit alone at times. I love ALL of my friends and followers but I do hope to get to know some other paper crafters that I have more lifestyle in common with.

The ladies over at YCU seem very partial to that Clean and Simple look so I REALLY tried to show some design discretion with this one.

Here it is:

This one is also the first in a series of cards I am making in order to challenge myself. I have SO many stamps I’ve never even opened and I am challenging myself to use them ALL! I used a Studio G rubber sentiment and a Studio G ‘with gems’ acrylic set.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Over at the new Digi Makeover Challenge Blog they are having a DT call. I have never been on a DT before but I am ready and I really want it!

So, they have some awesome freebies to work with (they also have a few good freebies hidden in their blog if you look for them!). All you have to do is go over and download them and then create a card, layout, or project with it.

They also want to know why you love digis. So, I love digis for SOOO many reasons! I love their flexibility. If you go through my blog you will see that I use digis in so many different ways: small, large, portrait, background… and recently I cropped one image into little pieces and used them in an Inchie Arts inspired project. I also love the the instant gratification of buying digital. Even if I don’t have the perfect image, I can think of a project and have an image to go along with it in minutes. Lastly, I love digis because of their affordability. I can get two or three digis for what I might pay for a rubber stamp and can do a lot of the same things. You can be a tool junkie, a technique freak, a C&S carmaker or a pile-it-on scrapbooker – no matter what, there is room in your crafty life for digis. If you have never tried a digital stamp you are missing out!

I got to use some sweet new supplies that I just bought recently at our brand new Joann’s – which is HUGE. The pretty gathered teal fabric is from the sewing section and I LOVE it! And, the little ledger at the bottom is punched with my new binding edge punch from EK Success.

Here is the card I made with the cute little monster (I love all PMS’ little monster digis!):

Sunday, August 21, 2011

I am very excited to be putting up my first entry for SPCC challenge. This is also the first in a series of entries in order to apply for a DT spot over there. (yeay!)

The Combo:

You know, Baja Breeze looked a little more turquois before. :)

I'm excited to share this with you for two reasons: One, I colored this image with colored pencils which I NEVER do. I am pretty much copic/watercolor all the way but, I am very happy with the results. And two: I got a chance to use some papers from SEI that I have been dying to use – and used them in a way that I didn’t expect when I bought them.

So, no more waiting, here we are:

She’s so cute, right? I am very happy with this card shape as well. The overhang allows you to use two patterned papers behind the main image – gives a lot of depth methinks. Here is the sketch I used (I modified it a little):

Friday, August 19, 2011

The challenge over at Tiddly Inks this week is inspired by Inchie Arts (mini cards).

I am, admittedly, not great at making very SMALL things. I intended for this to be smaller than it ended up being, but it is smaller than a standard A2 size. AND I went to the Inchie Arts blog and was inspired by their idea to use four squares stamped with the same image.

Tip: To add interest to the little squares and save time: digitally draw a square frame around the cropped sections and space them evenly before you print, then you won’t have to cut each one and mat it separately. Just color and cut neatly around the all four and your grouping is all ready to go.

I am not usually the clean and simple type of cardmaker, but this one just wanted to be that way, so what am I to do?

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Good morning people. I am hopping on this morning to show you a card that I made for the Tickled Pink Challenge blog!

I’m in LOVE with this image. I’m a sucker for fairies as it is and when you put that together with my love of TPS stamps…well there is little that could go wrong really.

I decided that she is very small and she takes refuge under a scary, curvy black rose from all the SPOOKS on Halloween! I used the Curvy tree from Tiddly Inks as the stem. I love mixing stamp companies and these two are really up at the top of my FAVES list.

I have been hoarding these big roses, not knowing what to use them on because they are FOAM. That’s right, they are made of an off-white foam – I thought they took the ink and Stickles beautifully!

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

I actually didn’t have a LOT of MME products. My LSS doesn’t really carry much of it so the only things I had to work with were the Simply Delightful MEGA stack and the first Life Stories stack. I used the iTop, punches and my “mad flower-making skills” to stretch that paper and turn it into embellishments. everything is made or covered with MME paper except for the tiny flowers and the solid cardstock.

I am loving the little “age” circle with our ages in it from Life Stories. I’m really happy with the results.

And here is the card sketch:

And here is what I did with it:

I found the card a bit more challenging than the layout. I realize that I rely on premade embellishments for card making more than I do for scrapbooking. But, I used the remnants from making my layout and I do like that paper. The tags, larger flowers and patterned paper are all MME products.

On this one I used some plain Wassau grey cardstock and some more BG (Origins) grid paper(black) to offset the beautiful papers and title from Authentique (Blissful). My Martha Stewart Score board and edge punch got a little play one this one as well.

Side Note: Honestly, I am a little disappointed with how the pictures of this turned out. It is so cute in person and the photos DID leave a little something to be desired – even though I tried to photograph them a MILLION ways. I DID find out that my camera has this cool stitch thing where I can take a three photos in a series and they will stitch together in a long photo. Cool, right?